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- From: briand@anasazi.com (Brian Douglass)
- Subject: Re: Lifestyle Choices (was Re: Sexuality)
- Organization: Anasazi Inc Phx Az USA
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:45:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.234500.21163@anasazi.com>
- References: <1992Dec30.162502.6756@asl.dl.nec.com> <1992Dec30.185545.26789@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1992Dec30.191743.7958@asl.dl.nec.com>
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- >In article <1992Dec30.185545.26789@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Evelyn C. Leeper) writes:
- >>
- [deleted stuff]
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- >>All people are asking is that unless you can come up with some
- >>*secular* reason for why their lifestyle choice is bad, you grant
- >>them the same rights they are willing to grant you: the right to
- >>live their life without persecution.
-
- Tell that to a smoker. Clearly this is a lifestyle choice, and yet
- non-smokers have persecuted them out of most public places. Why? Because
- non-smokers find smoking offensive, smelly, and possibly dangerous to their
- health. But in this battle the rights of a clear minority, have had little
- weight in comparison to the greater good of the public. That is the rights
- of the majority have been deemed more important than the rights of a
- minority.
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